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Webster 1913 Edition
Odist
Od′ist
,Noun.
A writer of an ode or odes.
2.
The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
She threw the
odium
of the fact on me. Dryden.
Odium theologicum
[L.]
, the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.
Syn. – Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy.
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Odium
, Hatred
. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his
To oppose his
hatred
fully. Shakespeare
You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the
odium
of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield.